Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 02:01:29 +0100 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au, bugs@FreeBSD.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com Subject: Re: 2.0R latest boot floppy bug(?) Message-ID: <199503010101.CAA07329@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Re. ---- From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> >Fatal trap 18: integer divide fault while in kernel mode Did it once work? Apparently the geometry obtained from the BIOS is unreliable. It seems to be 1023 cylinders (the driver adds 2 for bogus reasons), 256 heads (physically impossible) and 0 sectors (also physically impossible). ------ I have seen all manner of weird bugs since trying (& failing ) to install on a friends 386 + 8M + FPU, ISA, no cd, no ether, no exotic hardware, I have seen page fault in kernel mode, I have seen dos fdisk (yeah sure, not ours, but part of my problem) no able to cope with > 1023 cyls, checkit (a dos .exe pack) also cant cope > 1023 I have seen my ide maxtor repeatedly incremented from 1648 cyls to about 1652 after trying snapshot flops (earlier not current cos ftp from freefall is like a sick dog lately) I fell back to cd-rom flop images, still no luck, dell back to cd 1.1 version (no i havent tried 1.0 cd (though Ive got one) I guess there's some vital IDE thing i dont know, I've been a `I use scsi, I'll ignore all this IDE chat' person till now, but now I need to know - sigh - I've looked, thers no man ide & no share/FAQ/IDE I'd welcome a couple of people telling me `RTFM, manual file name is ...' Julian S
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